Yes. If he were a liberal. If he were a Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe or Scott Brown they would not have done all that crap.
If he wins he should immediately become an independent
As Sarah would say: "YOU BETCHA !!"
The old white haired men in the Senate think they own the RNC and go after anyone who they feel will question their power. Look at Palin.....she went out before the last election and publicly backed Tea Party candidates, vice the RNC-sponsered ones. And, then what really pissed them off was when the Tea Party, not RNC, was mainly responsible for taking the House back and gaining a couple of new senators.
They are all afraid they will be run off like Lugar. And, look at Orin Hatch....he was running in the primaries, for his life for the first time since he went into the Senate a hundred years ago. The Tea Party just could not compete with all the RNC war chests'. The same thing happened to Sharon Angle vs Harry Reid....RNC refused to help her because she was a Tea Party candidate, vice an RNC hand-picked flunky. If they (RNC) had given her a couple of million bucks, Reid would be back in Las Vagas being a mob lawyer again or in Searchlight running for dog catcher.